On Thursday 07 March 2002 10:37, you wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:55:51AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sadly missed, Alba was a Glasgow BBS. One of the best. > > Aye. Though I never really got involved in it ... just leeched files > because it was a local call away. The one I spent most time on was a > BBS called Evaware, somewhere down south. That BBS died when Nick's > (the guy who was running it) wife left him because he was spending all > his time on the BBS. :) > > My first real taste of the Internet was a BBS in Grangemouth (who's name > I can't remember ... it began with an 'A' too I think) which offered a That was Allmac (Alan MacIntyre I think)
> month's free Internet access when they first setup the gateway. Though > I didn't realise it at the time, it was just a Unix shell prompt with > access to gopher, FTP, lynx, a newsreader and a mailreader. -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
